Strange geetar from the bootsale...

[johnbaz]

Hi all

I was at our local bootsale this morning and bought a couple of guitars, an acoustic and a one piece strat style solid body electric..
The electric one has Burns Tri-sonic pickups and the enclosed saddle has Rangemaster on it, it has a whammy bar the locks in with a nut!!

Here are a couple of pics..






it came in a Selmer simulated snakeskin hard case...



I'm fairly sure that someone has painted this guitar with houshold gloss (acrylic) paint so i don't know who made the guitar, does anyone have an idea before i break out the nitromors???


Cheers, John

BTW, the acoustic one is a bit of an enigma too, on the headstock it says Lyon by Washburn yet when i google this it only returns three or four relevant hits (guitar related), again, anyone know anything about these acoustics, it's all mahogany though i believe it's all laminated (or if you're common like me, plywood )

[Malam]

The white electric looks like it's made from several different guitars. Possibly Selmer, Burns and Goya. Goya made the Rangemaster range, but it's not a Goya guitar. If you strip the guitar, you'll probably find that the neck was originally bolt on. It's a weird one for sure!

[Malam]

The crocodile Selmer case is quite rare btw, and looks to be in pretty good condition. The Selmer crocodile case originally came with the Futurama guitars...which were re-badged Hagstroms

Edited by Malam on Monday 11th October 00:57

[Evangelion]

That electric looks home made to me; for years those Burns Tri-Sonics were the only pickups you could buy separately. Brian May used them on his Red Special but rewired them as he didn't like the sound. It's not like a normal single-coil pickup, because there's a bar magnet under that black plastic cover.

[Asterix]

Have you played them yet - how do they sound?

[Nimbus]

no idea about what either of them are I'm afraid, but out of general interest, how much did you pay ? love the electric case